The remarkable true story of a family who move into a rundown zoo?already a BBC documentary miniseries and excerpted in The Guardian . In the market for a house and an adventure, Benjamin Mee moved his family to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Mee had a dream to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business.... more...

When Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home?a dilapidated zoo where more than 200 exotic animals would be their new neighbors?his friends and colleagues thought he was crazy. Mee?s dream was to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business. The grand reopening was scheduled for spring, but there was much... more...